Najib: Reports on my wife shopping spree 'deliberately fabricated'...

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak defended his wife Rosmah Mansor, claiming that the reports about her recent shopping spree in Sydney were "deliberately fabricated" to put him in a bad light.

He was responding to a question by a Twitter user, asking him to verify a blog post made by Australian fashion blog Frockwriter here  and here which estimated the bill for exclusive designer label clothing by Carl Kapp, to be around A$100,000 (RM323,000).

"It was a wildly exaggerated story deliberately fabricated to affect people's perception of their leaders," he said in Twitter last night.

Email exchanges

Sydney-based fashion journalist and blogger Patty Huntington  yesterday disclosed email exchanges to support her report about Najib and Rosmah's expenses.

Huntington stood by her blog posting of Jan 17, relating Kapp’s encounter with the couple at the the Darling Hotel penthouse, where his publicist Holly Beer had said that 61 items ordered were "for her (Rosmah's) everyday occasions, which are many".

The fashion journalist also defended her earlier report by disclosing the arrangement to fly Kapp to Kuala Lumpur this month just for the fitting, although the latter in his statement on Jan 25, had denied that, saying the visit to Malaysia was part of his Asian tour, to source material for his designs.

"Kapp told me (Huntington), she (Rosmah) asked him to come to KL for fittings.

"I (Kapp) said 'if you (Rosmah) take care of the travel arrangements, sure... I can't believe I'm actually flying over there next month for an hour and a half fitting.

"And then flying back out again the next day'," 

Huntington revealed, citing excerpts of her conversation with Kapp. On her part, Rosmah had dismissed claims that she spent extravagantly.

"It's all rubbish, wildly exaggerated and not true," she told Malaysiakini and The Sun when she was approached at MCA's Chinese New Year open house celebrations in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 23.

Najib-Laporan biniku belanja sakan sengaja direka...

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak mempertahankan Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor dengan mendakwa bahawa laporan kononnya isteri beliau berbelanja sakan di Sydney baru-baru ini "sengaja direka" untuk memburukkan imej mereka.

Beliau menjawab soalan yang dikemukakan oleh seorang pengguna di Twitter yang meminta beliau untuk mengesahkan sama ada tulisan di blog fesyen Australia - Frockwriter yang menganggarkan isterinya membelanjakan sekitar A $100,000 (RM323,000) untuk membeli pakaian oleh pereka terkenal.

"Ini cerita yang dibesar-besarkan dan sengaja direka untuk menjejaskan persepsi rakyat tentang pemimpin mereka," katanya di Twitter malam tadi.

Sebelum ini, wartawan fesyen Patty Huntington dalam blognya Frockwriter mendedahkan bahawa Rosmah ‘berbelanja sakan’ membeli pakaian pereka eksklusif di Sydney, Australia. Tulisannya kemudian dipetik oleh akhbar The Sydney Morning Herald pada 21 Januari. (Baca juga pendedahan kisah benar Rosmah Mansor belanja mewah...part 1 dan part 2.)

Dalam seksyen 'Private Sydney' kolumnis akhbar itu, Andrew Hornery memanggil Rosmah sebagai "first lady of shopping', kerana dikatakan telah membelanjakan A$100,000 (RM325,000) di sebuah butik di Sydney.

Memetik pereka fesyen Sydney Carl Kapp (kiri), kolumnis itu melaporkan bahawa "pelanggan terbesar" Kapp telah membelanjakan jumlah yang mengejutkan sewaktu "percutian peribadi" di sana.

Menurut kolum itu lagi, Rosmah dan Najib, semasa cuti tersebut, menginap di penthouse A$20,000 (RM65,100) semalam di Hotel Darling.

Dengan tajuk 'Super Kerr Now a Model Citizen', kolum itu turut melaporkan bahawa Rosmah telah meminta "parkir valet untuk limousinnya" dan menerbangkan Kapp ke Malaysia untuk mengenakan pakaian yang ditempahnya.

source:malaysiakini

Najib, kalau cerita itu sengaja direka2 kasi samanlah sama blogger dan akhbar yang highlight cerita tersebut! Ada teloqkah?


Najib, sue Huntington and Kapp. The courts and justice system are not run by kangaroos down under.
cheers.